Example sentences of "[num ord] time the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 2 | It was the second time the teacher-turned-comic had been hit by car vandals . |
| 3 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 4 | If he fails to attend a second time the judge has power to commit him to prison for contempt of court . |
| 5 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 6 | After the second time the coin is still there . |
| 7 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |
| 8 | But the first time she 'd spoken to Colin he 'd told her there was a hi-tech at the manufacturer 's end , and the second time the shop had been closed . |
| 9 | This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal . |
| 10 | erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it . |
| 11 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 12 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 13 | This will be the fourth time the World Cup has opened at the Utah resort , the third time for women . |
| 14 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 15 | It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence . |
| 16 | Particularly satisfying has been the successful assault on the German market where for the first time the company has secured orders for filament-wound rollers . |
| 17 | For the first time the problem of synthesising diamonds could now be expressed in terms of the ways the atoms were arranged and rearranged ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 18 | It is the first time the Service has explained its stand in the dispute , which led to serious disturbances among loyalist inmates in the Maze . |
| 19 | It 's the first time the Rectory Farm at Stanton St John has been hit by strawberry rustlers . |
| 20 | For the first time the survey , which covered 1,160,000 sq km ( i.e. two-thirds of the entire forest area in Europe ) included data on forest damage in the western part of the Soviet Union ( i.e. Byelorussia , the Kaliningrad region and Ukraine ) in addition to Estonia and Lithuania which had been included in earlier years . |
| 21 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 22 | This was the initial running of the world 's oldest Classic under commercial sponsorship , and for the first time the winner 's prize money topped £100,000 . |
| 23 | For the first time the laughter was extinguished from the little face so like Jack 's , and in its place was resignation and courage , and a wisdom far beyond his years . |
| 24 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 25 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 26 | Last night 100 families were being housed in bed and breakfast accommodation the first time the total has reached three figures . |
| 27 | For the first time the treaty formally recognized the rights of the 500,000-strong German minority in Poland to their own language , culture , family names and religion . |
| 28 | Robyn could smell the freshness of his cologne , see the way his eyes crinkled at the corners , notice for the first time the thickness of his lashes , the way his ebony hair would curl if allowed to grow long . |
| 29 | She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was . |
| 30 | For the first time the girl seemed to lose her self-possession . |